Just looking at the view widget code. There's a loophole that will allow
you to display a utc date:
<$list filter="20190101000000000" >
<$view field="title" format="date"/>
</$list>
This works as long as there is no actual tiddler "20190101000000000" .
Actually, maybe it works even if there is, but I didn't test that. You
could work this into a macro where the UTC date gets passed to the filter.
Keep in mind, that your padding approach will give an incorrect output if
you live west of GMT.
--Mark
On Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 6:33:41 AM UTC-7, S. S. wrote:
>
>
> People like to keep dates in fields in different ways.
>
> Normal people use *17-03-2019* or *17/03/2019*
> Others use *03-17-2019* or *03/17/2019*
> Smart ones use *2019-03-17* or *2019/03/17*
> The smartest use *20190317* but it not natural to type in a date this
> way, and it is very difficult for *the mind* to "*parse*" & "*render*"
>
> To refer to just a year, or a month of the year, or a specific day, all my
> dates are in 3 formats:
> Today: 2019-03-17
> This month: 2019-03
> This year: 2019
>
> To convert my dates auto to the default 17 character TiddlyWiki format:
> YYYYMMDDHHMMSSXXX
> was a real pain for me. I managed to do it with a (very painful for me to
> have made) *<<date {{!!date-field}}>>* macro.
>
> The macro takes any of the above 3 formats and AUTO converts:
>
> 2019 to 20190101000000000
> 2019-03 to 20190301000000000
> 2019-03-17 to 20190317000000000
>
> Then comes the next problem. How do I display this?
> I can't use the <$view> widget, because that can only take input from a
> *Field*, and my {{!!date-field}} is not in the right format. Only my
> variable holds the acceptable format.
>
> So what's a good way to display a variable holding 20190317000000000 as:
> *Sunday
> 17th March 2019*
>
> Something like:
>
> *<$text text=<<date {{!!date-field}}>> format="date" template="[UTC] DDD
> DDth MMM YYYY"/>*Thanks
> *.*
>
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